This file provides information on the materials to replicate the data analysis in the following publication:

Bräuninger, Thomas, and Nathalie Giger. 2016. Strategic ambiguity of party positions in multiparty competition. Political Science Research and Methods (forthcoming).


TABLE OF CONTENTS
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The replication folder contains the following files:

analyses_Braeuninger_Giger_2016.R	R script to produce descriptive statistics, figures (Figures
					2 and 3), estimate linear mixed-effects models models to test 
					hypotheses 1 and 2 (Tables 1 and 2), test for U-shape using 
					hypothetical manifestos

Braeuninger_Giger_2016.dta		Party manifesto dataset including wordscore estimates and
					party characteristics, Stata 11 format
					
Codebook.pdf		                The codebook for the above dataset

sampledtexts.tab			Wordscore point estimates and variances for hypothetical 
					manifestos (1000 for each country) generated from country-specific
					word frequency matrices

MCsimulation.R				R script for numerical computation of Nash equilibria of the
					ambiguity model and MC simulation (Figure 1)


SOFTWARE DEPENDENCIES
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All analyses were carried out using R version 3.2.2 (https://cran.r-project.org/), R package lme4 version 1.1-10  run on a x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) platform under Ubuntu Wily Werewolf.



